Author: Lynda Mullaly HuntPublisher: PenguinISBN: 1101572124Size: 60.80 MBFormat: PDFView: 1939DownloadRead Online
She's not really a Murphy, but the gifts they've given her have opened up a new future. "Hunt's writing is fearless and One For The Murphys is a story that is at once compassionate, thought-provoking and beautifully told.

Author: Michael Evans Jr.Publisher: AuthorHouseISBN: 1524648353Size: 14.19 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 3851DownloadRead Online
Never Judge a Fish on Its Ability to Climb a Tree is a paraphrased quote from Albert Einstein. In this childrens book, Michael is speaking from a child to a child.

Author: C S LakshmiPublisher: Penguin UKISBN: 8184756178Size: 79.86 MBFormat: PDFView: 6274DownloadRead Online
After that the name 'Kailasam' was conferred ceremoniously on the refrigerator.
All their household goods had been given names. The cactus plant given to her
by Dhananjayan was Dhanush. The creeper with tiny flat leaves was Megha. The
plant that mistook itself for a tree and had shot up so high—it was the first thing
she set eyes on when she woke up—was Usha. The plant that was attempting to
grow awkwardly, with crooked branches, was Vakkiran. Jayan teased her one
day, ...

Author: David BellosPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN: 0865478724Size: 65.83 MBFormat: PDFView: 4431DownloadRead Online
In fact, even for things that can be seen, the word does not name any one of them
but only that which allows all of them to be seen as instances of an idea. Thus tree is not the proper name of this oak or that aspen, it names the idea of a tree—
a mental representation of treeness that allows all actual trees to be recognized
as such. In this way of thinking, all linguistic expressions are the external form of
thoughts. What we do when we speak to each other is to 312 Is That a Fish in
Your ...

Author: Lui I-MingPublisher: Shambhala PublicationsISBN: 0834823330Size: 55.18 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 1809DownloadRead Online
This is like leaves flourishing when the roots of the tree are deep, the flow of a
stream extending far when its source is abundant. When the basis is established,
the Way develops; the living potential is ever present and never ceases. Most
people, however, do not know enough to preserve and maintain the fundamental;
instead they act on the outgrowths, imagining falsely that they will thereby attain
the Tao. This is like looking for fish in a tree—it will turn out to be in vain after all.

Author: Marion Zimmer BradleyPublisher: Hachette UKISBN: 0575113618Size: 73.34 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 748DownloadRead Online
She had not been happy there; she had felt, she told Rohana once rebelliously,
like a fish in a tree. But I am not sixteen years old anymore! Why am I here? She
shifted her weight, and at the sharp stab of pain in her wounded shoulder,
remembered. Where were her Terran companions? They had come late at night,
she remembered, and she had told the servants at the gate to bear word to the
Lady Rohana that her kinswoman had come to spend midwinternight, bringing
two friends.

Author: Donald KeenePublisher: Columbia University PressISBN: 0231511035Size: 43.20 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 5833DownloadRead Online
The appalled Kazan remonstrated with Yasunao about the folly of attempting,
with extremely limited means, to obtain the post of so ̄shaban. Yasunao seemed
to accept this good advice, but two days later he sent a man to ask Kazan to draft
a letter requesting Yasunao's appointment as so ̄shaban. Kazan went at once to
the castle and bluntly told Yasunao that he might just as well look for fish in a tree
as get the appointment. He added, “It has been fifteen days since I came here,
but ...